Josephine Wolff

Maybe it won't be where we'll end up.

But it would certainly be a big step forward if it turned out to mean that we could then impose some liability on developers who failed to use these tools for vulnerabilities that could have been caught but weren't.

If it means that insurers are going to condition their coverage on the use of these types of tools, it will give a huge amount of power to these companies, no question.

Will it give them more power than like the cloud companies have right now?

I don't know, right?

Tech has always been a very concentrated industry.

I think that's a broader systemic issue than just with AI.

I think the advice I have, and it's the most irritating and obnoxious advice you can give, but I think it's also the right advice, is that it's something people should be thinking about when they're voting, right?

That the question of how politicians are approaching artificial intelligence and what

Whether they think there should be any safeguards and whether they're willing to challenge any of the companies that are developing it is really important.

And it's only going to get more important as those companies are pouring more and more money into lobbying.

There are a whole bunch of issues to think about when you vote today.

And I'm not going to tell you it's the single most important one, but I think it's a very important one and only becoming more so.

Okay, well, I'm just going to give the most irritating cybersecurity advice.

And again, I'm only going to give it because I think it's the right advice.

You want to be really aggressive about installing the updates, as annoying as you find them, as much as you want to tell your computer and your phone to delay them.

You want to be really careful.

about how you're using AI, what you're giving it access to, what pieces of your digital life, what pieces of your data are being fed into it.

You want to be really thoughtful about which companies' AI tools and products you're using.

You want to think carefully about who's running those companies and what their interests are.